January 23, 2007

theocrats, neocons and fatherland/homeland security

It was long ago that I heard Corrie Ten Boom speak, when, in the question and answer period, someone
asked if she feared that Germany would become fascist again. She
paused, and said quietly: "No, not Germany, but America. .. . ." Over these 30 years her fears seemed to become and more
justified. Here are some quotes- lengthy, but chilling:

A fighting faith:

My
feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter.
Adolf Hitler, 1922.

This 'turn the other cheek' business is all well and good but it's
not what Jesus fought and died for. What we need to do is take the
battle to the Muslim heathens and do unto them before they do unto us. Jerry Falwell, 2002

I
want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to
let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a
Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to
conquer this country. Randall Terry, 1993

We
are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There's a lot of
talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's
values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our
children what to believe. Gary Bauer

Nothing
short of a great Civil War of Values rages today throughout North
America. Two sides with vastly differing and incompatible world views
are locked in a bitter conflict that permeates every level of society. James Dobson

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, 1950

Public Education

Secular
schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious
instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious
foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and
religion must be derived from faith.... We need believing people. Adolf Hitler, 1933

I
hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country,
we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them
over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that
will be! Jerry Falwell, 1979

The
Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of
dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use
them to influence the nation for Christ. D.James Kennedy, 1993

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America. Pat Buchanan, 1996

The
public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement... Pat Robertson, 1993

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. Adolf Hitler

No Atheists allowed:

We
were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have
therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that
not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.
Adolf Hitler, 1933

The
Constitution of the United States . . . is a marvelous
document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute
you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and
atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our
society. Pat Robertson, 1981

No,
I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should
they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God. George Herbert W. Bush

When
I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians
and Jews into the government. . .the media challenged me. . . How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo
Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and
Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.' Pat Robertson

Fighting Immorality:

We
want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit … We want to
burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the
theater, and in the press. . .we want to burn out the poison of
immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a
result of liberal excess. . . Adolf Hitler

How
much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long
overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who
believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America
for Jesus Christ.” D.James Kennedy, 1997

Theater,
art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be
cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the
service of a moral, political, and cultural idea. Adolf Hitler, 1926

We're
fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism ... we are
fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our
nation today ... our battle is with Satan himself. Jerry Falwell

Fatherland Homeland security:

Unique
among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as
being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we
have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different.
We have no king but Jesus. John Ashcroft, 1999

This
country belongs to God ... He's the One who brought the United States
of America into existence. He had a special purpose for it ... He
raised it up, and it's not going to be taken away from Him. Kenneth Copeland

What
we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the
fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission
assigned to it by the Creator. Adolf Hitler, 1926

Christians
have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to
reclaim the land for Jesus Christ -- to have dominion in civil
structures. . . But
it is dominion we are after. . . World conquest. . . And we must never
settle for anything less... George Grant

Lord
God, give us the strength that we may retain our liberty for our
children and our children's children, not only for ourselves but also
for the other peoples of Europe, for this is a war which we all wage,
this time, not for our German people alone, it is a war for all of
Europe and with it, in the long run, for all of mankind. Adolf Hitler,1942

These
perverted homosexuals.absolutely hate everything that you and I and
most decent, God-fearing citizens stand for.Make no mistake. These
deviants seek no less than total control and influence in society,
politics, our schools and in our exercise of free speech and religious
freedom..If we do not act now, homosexuals will own America! Jerry Falwell, 1999

There
will never be world peace until God's house and God's people are given
their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. Pat Robertson, 1991

The State & the Faith Community:

This
the national government will regard its first and foremost duty to
restore the unity of spirit and purpose of our people. It will preserve
and defend the foundations upon which the power of our nation rests. It
will take Christianity, as the basis of our collective morality, and
the family as the nucleus of our people and state, under its firm
protection....May God Almighty take our work into his grace, give true
form to our will, bless our insight, and endow us with the trust of our
people. Adolf Hitler, 1935

When
the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no
satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more
abortion on demand, and no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After
the Christian majority takes control, pluralism (i.e.,
multiculturalism) will be seen as immoral and evil. . . Gary Potter

The
Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral
purification of our public life, are creating and securing the
conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life Adolf Hitler, 1933

You
better believe that I want to build a Christian nation, because the
only option is a pagan nation.. . . Randall Terry

Imbued
with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious,
moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian Confessions, we
have abolished the political organizations but strengthened the
religious institutions. Adolf Hitler, 1934

The faithful in mission:

If
we remain strong and focused and tough when we need to, if we continue
to speak clearly about right from wrong and defend the values -- which
are not American values, but God-given values -- we can achieve peace. George W Bush, 2003

Remain
strong in your faith, as you were in former years. In this faith, in
its close-knit unity our people to-day goes straight forward on its way
and no power on earth will avail to stop it. Adolf Hitler, 1937

The
short-term objective of this country is to find an enemy and bring them
to justice before they strike us. The long-term objective is to make
this world a more free and hopeful and peaceful place. I believe we'll
succeed because freedom is the Almighty God's gift to every man and
woman in this world. George W Bush, 2004

I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past,
so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our
action, to our judgment and our resolution, that He will safeguard us
from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant
us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the
German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the
right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any
danger. Adolf Hitler, 1937

Divine Appointment:

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work. Adolf Hitler, 1936

God
told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed
me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve
the problem in the Middle East. George W. Bush

Comments

A collection of quotes from theocrats does not a fascist nation make. America is and will continue to move further and further to the left. It always amazes me how a number of people of the leftwing political persuasion continue screaming that America is becoming a "Christo-fascist" dictatorship.
The only reason we have finally heard from so many conservative voices lately is because of the rise of the internet and talk radio, the great media equalizers of late, but it still amounts to only one step to the right for every 3 steps we collectively make to the left.
Some people are so far to the left that everything that does not fit their world view is right-wing -- I have a feeling that this describes the owner of this blog.

"Do you have footnotes/sources for these quotes?"
You should be able to copy and paste them into google and come up with sources.

"It always amazes me how a number of people of the leftwing political persuasion continue screaming that America is becoming a "Christo-fascist" dictatorship."
Most "left wing" people don't see it this way, but I'm always astounded by the shrill propaganda of the Right. Some of the "dark" predictions of the Right are pretty absurd. The Right definitely has taken the "we are victims" claim to astonishing and irrational heights. I do agree that the country is moving to the Left over time. That's why the Right has sought to entrench no-gay-marriage into the constitution - they know their time is running out, and they are trying to erect barricades to prevent the country's populace from legalizing gay marriage through a majority vote.